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The Shell cracker in Beaver County bolstered its air monitoring system. But don't expect instant data.
The final piece of Shell Chemical’s fenceline monitoring plan — a hard-won victory for environmental groups concerned about air quality impacts... → Read More
Norfolk Southern's safety plan seeks to improving wayside sensors
Norfolk Southern, the Atlanta-based railroad whose train derailed and caught on fire in East Palestine, Ohio last month, released a plan Monday that it... → Read More
A Halloween mystery haunts Greene County residents where a house exploded in 2018
The brick skeleton and cascading pile of charred rubble that once was home to three generations of the White family in Clarksville is as haunting today... → Read More
Blasting cancer into space: 2 CCAC students get ready to launch an experiment in microgravity
Jason Gomes enrolled in Community College of Allegheny County to study biotechnology. Until this fall, he hadn’t thought about sending cancer into... → Read More
As more utility customers struggle to pay their bills, more are also being shut off for nonpayment
The number of utility consumers in Pennsylvania struggling to pay their bills has increased over the past year, according to data collected by the Pennsylvania... → Read More
CNX will continue to 'acquire ourselves,' CEO Nick DeIuliis says
With cash flowing as predicted at CNX Resources Corp., the asset that the company is most interested in acquiring is itself. Since it launched a share... → Read More
Evoqua, Downtown Pittsburgh-based water treatment company, agrees to be acquired for $7.5 billion
In an all-stock deal valued at $7.5 billion, Downtown-based water treatment company Evoqua has agreed to be acquired by Washington-based water technology... → Read More
Flaring at Beaver County's Shell plant sparks a range of debate
September was a tumultuous month for the Shell chemical plant in Beaver County. It was two months before Shell announced that the plant was making plastic... → Read More
China, once again, is the wild card for PPG
Three years after COVID-19 started to sicken residents of Wuhan, China, where PPG has one of its 19 manufacturing facilities in the country, China is again... → Read More
Pennsylvania now has limits on forever chemicals, ahead of federal standards
Pennsylvania has enacted a limit on two PFAS chemicals in drinking water, marking the first time that the state has set its own limits instead of adopting... → Read More
A perfect (winter) storm brings lessons for gas producers and the electric grid
The brutal, unrelenting cold that lasted for several days over the Christmas holiday froze off a sizable portion of Appalachia’s ample gas production,... → Read More
Pa.-backed 'blue hydrogen' hub pitch passes first hurdle in race for $7 billion in federal funds
The Pennsylvania-blessed effort to develop a “blue hydrogen” hub in the region, which would use natural gas to make the new fuel, has secured... → Read More
As Essential sells Peoples West Virginia, it says Peoples Natural Gas 'essential' to expansion plans here
Essential Utilities, the Bryn Mawr-based parent of Peoples Natural Gas, is selling its small natural gas utility in West Virginia to Hope Gas, whose CEO... → Read More
Christmas Day fire at Energy Transfer's Revolution plant keeps Washington County facility offline
A natural gas processing plant in Washington County remains offline after a Christmas day fire ripped through a section of the Energy Transfer facility,... → Read More
At PPG, the new year brings a new CEO and a new era
On Jan. 1, PPG, a 140-year-old institution, passed from one lifer to another. Michael McGarry, who got his first job out of graduate school at a PPG plant... → Read More
Painting the country yellow: PPG mixes a different shade of road paint for each state in the union
Ed Baiden, who heads PPG’s traffic solution business, calls it “the beauty of our system in the U.S.” that each state has its own shade... → Read More
New nurses at CCAC join the ranks of those most wanted
Nearly 200 people in white scrubs walked into the gymnasium at the Community College of Allegheny County on Saturday as students and walked out as nurses,... → Read More
Shell's flaring at Beaver County cracker plant pushed company over air permit limits, data shows
Shell Chemicals’ new cracker plant in Beaver County has exceeded its air permit limits for two months in a row, prompting a notice of violation from... → Read More
Rice venture ready to 'change the world' with North Carolina power generation tech firm deal
Danny Rice, whose second blank check company announced it is acquiring a North Carolina power generation technology firm, told investors Wednesday that... → Read More
Equitrans storage well leak in Cambria County sparks overhaul of monitoring efforts
For years, Pennsylvania regulators have been concerned that if something like the massive gas leak that raged in Cambria County last month occurred in... → Read More